
Lead Software Engineer II – Frontend
Best Egg
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Wilmington • United States
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Salary
💰 $110,000 - $130,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Design, develop, and deliver high-quality software iteratively and incrementally.
- Take ownership of key components and features—from hands-on coding to deployment and monitoring.
- Contribute to frontend observability using tools like Datadog and Fullstory for error tracking, performance monitoring, and user session analysis.
- Participate in technical design discussions and contribute architectural insights, working with senior leaders to shape solutions.
- Ensure software follows modern engineering practices, including clean code, testing, automation, and modern frontend architecture patterns.
- Support continuous improvement in code quality, reliability, performance, and developer experience.
- Translate business requirements into clear technical tasks and help validate assumptions and approaches.
Requirements
- 5–7 years of professional frontend software engineering experience.
- Expertise with Angular (preferred), React, or Vue at scale.
- Strong proficiency in JavaScript and TypeScript, including experience with advanced typing and generics.
- Strong understanding of reactive programming patterns and state management, with experience in libraries such as RxJS, NgRx, Vuex/Pinia, or Redux.
- Strong proficiency in CSS/SCSS, HTML, responsive design, cross-browser compatibility, and mobile-first development.
- Experience integrating RESTful APIs, third-party SDKs, and embedded widgets within single-page applications, including complex asynchronous workflows.
- Experience designing and contributing to reusable component libraries and shared internal packages (NPM preferred).
- Experience with unit testing (Vitest, Jest, Jasmine, or similar).
- Experience working within mature, legacy codebases and contributing to incremental modernization efforts.
- Familiarity with accessibility standards and best practices.
Benefits
- Pre-tax and post-tax retirement savings plans with a competitive company matching program
- Generous paid time-off plans including vacation, personal/sick time, paid short- term and long-term disability leaves, paid parental leave, and paid company holidays
- Multiple health care plans to choose from, including dental and vision options
- Flexible Spending Plans for Health Care, Dependent Care, and Health Reimbursement Accounts
- Company-paid benefits such as life insurance, wellness platforms, employee assistance programs, and Health Advocate programs
- Other great discounted benefits include identity theft protection, pet insurance, fitness center reimbursements, and many more!
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Hard Skills & Tools
frontend software engineeringAngularReactVueJavaScriptTypeScriptCSSSCSSHTMLRESTful APIs
Soft Skills
ownershipcollaborationcommunicationproblem-solvingtechnical designcontinuous improvementtranslating business requirements